I experienced the same problems with a Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V (J1900 based with dual Nic), some details more on vm-help . I ended returning the board and keep using my D2700MUD (which works quite well with 8GB of RAM despite not being officially supported) as a whitebox.

The error seems quite similar to the one I had with a previous Atom motherboard, solved selecting 8MB of video ram instead of 16, which is not available on those J1900 boards). Some other things I did not have the time to try:

Hack the CMOS settings with an editor to force 8MB of vRAM (no idea if possible)

Try with a discrete VGA card with 8MB of vRAM (not sure if available on PCIe slot)

Disable SATA

Disable power and performance options (i.e. no speedstep, just 1 core enabled)

jmattson, I discovered last friday, when I got all the cables, that I don't have an COM port on my I/O panel back. It requires an extra mobo connector, which i don't have unfortunately

Thanks psychowood for your response.

Regarding option 1, I don't have a clue whether that's possible and how.

Option 2, I've found some graphic cards, however memory starts at 32MB and up and is a little expensive.

Option 3, I've tried disabling SATA3 to no success, but do you mean SATA2 also? My final setup requires an SSD and an HDD. I've also tried to detach both drives (so not disabled both) during install, to no success.

Option 4, No speedstep is one thing I can try, I'm not sure about just 1 core. Will report later!

Option 5, I think this will work because the board is compatible with Win8. However I don't want a Windows server